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This communicative is portion of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET's postulation of news, tips and proposal astir Apple's astir fashionable product.
Apple's new iPhone 14 phones are bringing caller updates to the cameras, the instrumentality of a larger Plus exemplary and a absorption connected information features similar car clang detection. These phones, which commencement astatine $799 (£849, AU$1,399), were announced Wednesday by Apple alongside the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max.
Probably the biggest upgrade to the non-Pro iPhone 14 is the Plus model, bringing an iPhone with a 6.7-inch show to a little $899 price. While this comes with the demise of the Mini size antecedently seen successful the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 line, it's a important discount implicit the $1,099 starting terms of the iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Both the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus get a clump of caller features including a caller SOS Emergency via Satellite service, a caller video stabilization instrumentality called enactment mode, an upgraded Cinematic mode and each the major iOS 16 features you'd expect (the caller iPhone bundle comes retired connected Sept. 12).
The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are Apple's caller baseline phones for 2022.
James Martin/CNETThe iPhone 14 and 14 Plus besides enactment with the caller Apple Watch Series 8 (three models) and the AirPods Pro 2 earbuds. We interruption down everything announced for the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus including their price, features, colors, merchandise day and more.
Read more: How iPhone 14 Pro's Whopping 48-Megapixel Camera Will Change Your Phone Photography
iPhone 14 and 14 Plus terms and merchandise date
Pricing for the iPhone 14 starts astatine $799 (£849, AU$1,399) for a 128GB version, the aforesaid arsenic past year's iPhone 13 erstwhile activated connected a bearer plan. Preorders statesman Sept. 9 and the telephone goes connected merchantability Sept. 16.
The iPhone 14 Plus, which besides comes with 128GB of basal storage, starts astatine $899 (£949, AU$1,579) and is disposable connected Oct. 7 -- you tin besides preorder it Sept. 9.
iPhone 14 colors you tin bargain (and 1 you can't)
True to form, Apple volition merchantability the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus successful 5 colors:
- Starlight
- Midnight
- Blue
- Purple
- Product Red
During the fewer minutes I got to effort the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, I noticed that the purple colour is much of a brushed lavender colour that shifts depending connected the lighting it's under. The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max travel successful a heavy purple decorativeness that shifts betwixt a matte achromatic look nether immoderate lights to a affluent heavy purple similar Prince.
iPhone 14 and 14 Plus features
At archetypal glance, the caller iPhone 14 mightiness look conscionable similar the iPhone 13. Both iPhones diagnostic outer casings akin to those of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 models, which were released successful 2020 and 2021, respectively. Apple besides made a clump of insignificant improvements and added caller features. The iPhone 14 packs a 6.1-inch display, portion the iPhone 14 Plus has a 6.7-inch screen.
The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus person the aforesaid A15 Bionic spot from past year's iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. Apple says the 14 and 14 Plus are 18% faster than the iPhone 13. Only the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max volition get the caller A16 Bionic chip.
While Apple sold a smaller, Mini exemplary of its main iPhone for the past 2 years, it did not present an iPhone 14 Mini connected Wednesday. The iPhone 13 Mini remains connected sale, starting astatine $599.
iPhone 14's cameras get a caller engine
In presumption of photos and video, some phones diagnostic a main camera with a larger updated 12-megapixel sensor and a wide-angle lens with a faster aperture that lets successful much light. The iPhone 14's cameras person a antithetic method for processing photos called Photonic Engine.
The TrueDepth camera connected the beforehand gets a new, faster, f1.9 aperture lens. Apple besides added a caller video stabilization mode, dubbed Action mode. It's designed to support your videos looking creaseless adjacent erstwhile you're signaling video portion walking oregon moving around.
As rumored, Apple has removed the carnal SIM paper slot connected the caller iPhone 14 line. It besides adds crash detection, a diagnostic Apple focused connected during its Apple Watch presentation, and a caller satellite connectivity diagnostic for usage successful emergencies. The outer diagnostic volition motorboat successful November and volition beryllium included for escaped for 2 years with the acquisition of the iPhone 14.
In summation to the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, Apple introduced new iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max phones with an updated plan that replaces the accepted notch with a caller "Dynamic Island" layout for the beforehand camera and Face ID sensor.
For much connected Apple, here's a afloat database of Apple's caller products, including the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra and AirPods Pro 2.
Here are the afloat specs for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus.
iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus specs compared
| 6.1-inch OLED; 2,532x1,170 pixels | 6.7-inch OLED; 2,778x1,284 pixels |
| 460 ppi | 458 ppi |
| 5.78 x 2.82 x 0.31 in. | 6.33 x 3.07 x 0.31 in. |
| 147 x 72 x 7.8mm | 161 x 78 x 7.8mm |
| 6.07 oz.; 172g | 7.16 oz.; 203g |
| iOS 16 | iOS 16 |
| 12MP (wide), 12MP (ultrawide) | 12MP (wide), 12MP (ultrawide) |
| 12MP | 12MP |
| HDR video signaling with Dolby Vision up to 4K astatine 60 fps | HDR video signaling with Dolby Vision up to 4K astatine 60 fps |
| Apple A15 Bionic | Apple A15 Bionic |
| 128GB, 256GB, 512GB | 128GB, 256GB, 512GB |
| Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| No | No |
| Undisclosed; Apple lists 20 hours of video playback | Undisclosed; Apple lists 26 hours of video playback |
| No (Face ID) | No (Face ID) |
| Lightning | Lightning |
| No | No |
| 5G enabled; MagSafe; h2o resistant (IP68); wireless charging; dual-SIM capabilities (e-SIM) | 5G enabled; MagSafe; h2o resistant (IP68); wireless charging; dual-SIM capabilities (e-SIM) |
| $799 (128GB), $899 (256GB), $1,099 (512GB) | $899 (128GB), $999 (256GB), $1,199 (512GB) |
| £849 (128GB) | £899 (128GB) |
| AU$1,399 (128GB) | AU$1,579 (128GB) |
